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Posted February 09, 2017
Hi all. Long time player and lurker here. My apologies if there is a dedicated thread for these requests but I did not see one. I'm trying to identify a few old games (And I mean old. I had a PC Jr in the mid 80's)

1 - This was a Space Invaders clone just titled "Alien" (or "Aliens"). I am sure there were a million of these but I can never find the one I'm looking for. The aliens were much larger than the traditional SI sprites...not much to go on, I know.

2 - This was a fishing game. I believe it was on a single screen, fixed to a side view. You could control the line, where it went and whatnot, and when you hooked a fish I believe you had to answer a Bible trivia question to reel it in. I remember big, ugly brown fish with huge underbites near the bottom of the lake.

3 - (Now solved to be Zuran Defender) This one is driving me the craziest, and sadly I don't have much for you to go on. Another PC Jr era game, this was played in outer space. You controlled a white space ship, and it was either an overhead or side view. The areas or levels or whatever were called "quadrants" (this is the only thing I remember for sure) and I'm pretty sure you had limited moves/fuel and had to go inside space stations to recharge. There may have been enemies to shoot and mines to avoid.

4 - (Most likely Nocturne) This is a more modern one, I probably saw a friend playing it around 1997ish. It looked kinda film noirish, your character was dressed in a trenchcoat and hat and had a flashlight you controlled. 3rd person but I do not think it was Alone in the Dark. You were outside in the dark and it may have been raining.

Sorry for the odd bits of information, that's what being 34 and having a ton of concussions will do to you. Thanks in advance for anyone who can help.
Post edited February 10, 2017 by JohnnyDangerDCD
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Posted February 09, 2017
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JohnnyDangerDCD: 2 - This was a fishing game. I believe it was on a single screen, fixed to a side view. You could control the line, where it went and whatnot, and when you hooked a fish I believe you had to answer a Bible trivia question to reel it in. I remember big, ugly brown fish with huge underbites near the bottom of the lake.
Was it like Bible Baseball? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi9J5BqNcLM
Posted February 09, 2017
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JohnnyDangerDCD: 4 - This is a more modern one, I probably saw a friend playing it around 1997ish. It looked kinda film noirish, your character was dressed in a trenchcoat and hat and had a flashlight you controlled. 3rd person but I do not think it was Alone in the Dark. You were outside in the dark and it may have been raining.
Blade Runner, maybe! But I think you would know that, so probably no!
Posted February 09, 2017
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JohnnyDangerDCD: 2 - This was a fishing game. I believe it was on a single screen, fixed to a side view. You could control the line, where it went and whatnot, and when you hooked a fish I believe you had to answer a Bible trivia question to reel it in. I remember big, ugly brown fish with huge underbites near the bottom of the lake.
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tfishell: Was it like Bible Baseball? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi9J5BqNcLM
Nah, this was way before a windows or mouse interface. It was an ugly, old DOS game.
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JohnnyDangerDCD: 4 - This is a more modern one, I probably saw a friend playing it around 1997ish. It looked kinda film noirish, your character was dressed in a trenchcoat and hat and had a flashlight you controlled. 3rd person but I do not think it was Alone in the Dark. You were outside in the dark and it may have been raining.
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GlorFindel: Blade Runner, maybe! But I think you would know that, so probably no!
Nope! But thanks for trying.
Post edited February 09, 2017 by JohnnyDangerDCD
Posted February 09, 2017
The obvious one for 4 would be Nocturne IMO.
Posted February 09, 2017
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Smannesman: The obvious one for 4 would be Nocturne IMO.
That is possible. The timeframe fits. It doesn't look exactly like I remember, but, it gives me something to research. Thanks!
Posted February 09, 2017
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JohnnyDangerDCD: 3 - This one is driving me the craziest, and sadly I don't have much for you to go on. Another PC Jr era game, this was played in outer space. You controlled a white space ship, and it was either an overhead or side view. The areas or levels or whatever were called "quadrants" (this is the only thing I remember for sure) and I'm pretty sure you had limited moves/fuel and had to go inside space stations to recharge. There may have been enemies to shoot and mines to avoid.
Was it turn-based or real time? It sounds like it might be the original Star Trek game, which was a fixture of the old university mainframe computers and then got adapted to PCs. If it was real-time, though, it could be one of the games inspired by Star Trek, like Star Raiders.
Posted February 09, 2017
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JohnnyDangerDCD: 3 - This one is driving me the craziest, and sadly I don't have much for you to go on. Another PC Jr era game, this was played in outer space. You controlled a white space ship, and it was either an overhead or side view. The areas or levels or whatever were called "quadrants" (this is the only thing I remember for sure) and I'm pretty sure you had limited moves/fuel and had to go inside space stations to recharge. There may have been enemies to shoot and mines to avoid.
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andysheets1975: Was it turn-based or real time? It sounds like it might be the original Star Trek game, which was a fixture of the old university mainframe computers and then got adapted to PCs. If it was real-time, though, it could be one of the games inspired by Star Trek, like Star Raiders.
I know it wasn't Star Trek. It may have been turn based, in that you advanced one square at a time. I wish I remembered more but we're talking like 1986 here.
Posted February 10, 2017
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andysheets1975: Was it turn-based or real time? It sounds like it might be the original Star Trek game, which was a fixture of the old university mainframe computers and then got adapted to PCs. If it was real-time, though, it could be one of the games inspired by Star Trek, like Star Raiders.
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JohnnyDangerDCD: I know it wasn't Star Trek. It may have been turn based, in that you advanced one square at a time. I wish I remembered more but we're talking like 1986 here.
Was it a port of the Sega Star Trek arcade game from 1982?

http://www.mobygames.com/game/star-trek-strategic-operations-simulator/screenshots

https://youtu.be/5bh35Dqum4Y
Posted February 10, 2017
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JohnnyDangerDCD: 3 - This one is driving me the craziest, and sadly I don't have much for you to go on. Another PC Jr era game, this was played in outer space. You controlled a white space ship, and it was either an overhead or side view. The areas or levels or whatever were called "quadrants" (this is the only thing I remember for sure) and I'm pretty sure you had limited moves/fuel and had to go inside space stations to recharge. There may have been enemies to shoot and mines to avoid.
There was a PC version of Sinistar, maybe that?
Posted February 10, 2017
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Smannesman: The obvious one for 4 would be Nocturne IMO.
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JohnnyDangerDCD: That is possible. The timeframe fits. It doesn't look exactly like I remember, but, it gives me something to research. Thanks!
Nocturne was my first thought as well.

There was also a trilogy of Blair Witch games that was made, but they would have been a bit later I think? Each was set in a different time frame but they had a similar "washed out" look to Nocturne.

*edit for the were that WAS bugging me ;) *
Post edited February 10, 2017 by Ixamyakxim
Posted February 10, 2017
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JohnnyDangerDCD: 4 - This is a more modern one, I probably saw a friend playing it around 1997ish. It looked kinda film noirish, your character was dressed in a trenchcoat and hat and had a flashlight you controlled. 3rd person but I do not think it was Alone in the Dark. You were outside in the dark and it may have been raining.
Apart from the fact that it was released in 1999, this sounds somewhat like Discworld Noir.
Posted February 10, 2017
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JohnnyDangerDCD: I know it wasn't Star Trek. It may have been turn based, in that you advanced one square at a time. I wish I remembered more but we're talking like 1986 here.
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yyahoo: Was it a port of the Sega Star Trek arcade game from 1982?

http://www.mobygames.com/game/star-trek-strategic-operations-simulator/screenshots

https://youtu.be/5bh35Dqum4Y
No, Thanks for the suggestion but it definitely had nothing to do with Star Trek, and there was no first person/aiming/crosshairs type view to it at all.
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JohnnyDangerDCD: 4 - This is a more modern one, I probably saw a friend playing it around 1997ish. It looked kinda film noirish, your character was dressed in a trenchcoat and hat and had a flashlight you controlled. 3rd person but I do not think it was Alone in the Dark. You were outside in the dark and it may have been raining.
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Wishbone: Apart from the fact that it was released in 1999, this sounds somewhat like Discworld Noir.
I'm pretty sure it is Nocturne, but, thank you!

And to Bouchart, it wasn't Sinistar either, but thanks for trying.
Post edited February 10, 2017 by JohnnyDangerDCD
Posted February 10, 2017
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JohnnyDangerDCD: 3 - This one is driving me the craziest, and sadly I don't have much for you to go on. Another PC Jr era game, this was played in outer space. You controlled a white space ship, and it was either an overhead or side view. The areas or levels or whatever were called "quadrants" (this is the only thing I remember for sure) and I'm pretty sure you had limited moves/fuel and had to go inside space stations to recharge. There may have been enemies to shoot and mines to avoid.
Star Fleet I: The War Begins!

http://www.mobygames.com/game/star-fleet-i-the-war-begins
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fleet_I:_The_War_Begins]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fleet_I:_The_War_Begins[/url]
Posted February 10, 2017
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JohnnyDangerDCD: 3 - This one is driving me the craziest, and sadly I don't have much for you to go on. Another PC Jr era game, this was played in outer space. You controlled a white space ship, and it was either an overhead or side view. The areas or levels or whatever were called "quadrants" (this is the only thing I remember for sure) and I'm pretty sure you had limited moves/fuel and had to go inside space stations to recharge. There may have been enemies to shoot and mines to avoid.
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PixelBoy: Star Fleet I: The War Begins!

http://www.mobygames.com/game/star-fleet-i-the-war-begins
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fleet_I:_The_War_Begins]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fleet_I:_The_War_Begins[/url]
The description sounds a LOT like it, but the graphics aren't even close. This one was played over a star field with...reasonable graphics for the PCjr, not ASCII characters....and I checked screenshots for Star Fleet II, wasn't that either.

I KNOW I didn't imagine this game, but, this is getting ridiculous! I can't believe how similar the description to Star Fleet I sounds to what I actually played.

I don't know if it helps any, but other games I had at the time were King's Quest 1, 2 and 3...Space Quest 1 and 2...Sierra Boxing, Alley Cat, The Black Cauldron, Bumble Games, Congo Bongo, Hardball, Shamus, Montezuma's Revenge, Jumpman ....something around that time frame...
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